Bathroom Advertisements #2

For this second bathroom advert’ review, and a follow-up to Ethan’s second bathroom review, we take a look at:

The Dardys on the toilet seat at Mars Bar
Now that you’ve read Ethan’s review of this bathroom, I went into this questioning what type of band, and its members, would have the need for promotion so bad that they would touch this toilet seat cover. But there it is, and when I decided to investigate The Dardys I began to notice their stickers are everywhere! Mostly in bathrooms too.
Nonetheless, I began with a quick google search confident I would discover the result to be another Brooklyn based band. Alas, I was totally correct. The band, outfitted with a mysapce music page, an official band page and a blog, has a strong presence on the internet. Their personal page consists of a bio page that indicates they are a four piece indie-pop band from New York with their main influences being Buddy Holly, Arctic Monkeys and Blur. The rest of the page consists of their origin which is followed by a list of quotes from varying music blogs to their friends and at the bottom a link to download their album for free.

Download complete, unzipped and loaded into iTunes and pressed play. Their sound of the instruments were tight, good use of back-up singers and overall catchy song construction. Having listened to the whole album I felt as if it had a narrative – that being the band got better.
I think the only thing that put my off initially was the lead singer’s, David Heffernan, voice. Not that it was bad, but there seemed to be an element that was forced. But it was over the course of the album that I think he found is stride and by the last two songs, which were my favorite, he found a good middle ground between his actually singing voice and the voice he seemingly tried to emulate.
Nonetheless, the band had a great ability to get me into the groove and dance elements of their sound and can definitely forsee this band achieving bigger and better. Granted, they already have a good promotion plan of smothering bathrooms of hip bars all about Brooklyn and Manhattan. After exploring this band, they’ve managed to hook me enough where I am curious about their live performance.

Tags: Brooklyn, indie-pop, Mars Bar, new york, The Dardys

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